Mark 12:12-27
When they realized that he had told this parable against
them, they wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowd. So they left him
and went away.
Then they sent to him
some Pharisees and some Herodians to trap him in what he said. And they came
and said to him, ‘Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and show deference to
no one; for you do not regard people with partiality, but teach the way of God
in accordance with truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?
Should we pay them, or should we not?’ But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to
them, ‘Why are you putting me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me see
it.’ And they brought one. Then he said to them, ‘Whose head is this, and whose
title?’ They answered, ‘The emperor’s.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Give to the
emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are
God’s.’ And they were utterly amazed at him.
Some Sadducees, who
say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, saying,
‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but
no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.
There were seven brothers; the first married and, when he died, left no
children; and the second married her and died, leaving no children; and the
third likewise; none of the seven left children. Last of all the woman herself
died. In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had married
her.’
Jesus said to them,
‘Is not this the reason you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor
the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are
given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being
raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush,
how God said to him, “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob”? He is God not of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong.’
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Rabbi Jesus at his rabbinical best.
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Rabbi Jesus at his rabbinical best.
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